§ 11-44-3 - Arrest and detention of persons taking fruits and vegetables. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 11-44-3

   § 11-44-3  Arrest and detention of personstaking fruits and vegetables. – Every sheriff, deputy sheriff, town or city sergeant, constable, or policeofficer, who shall discover any person or persons in the act of taking andcarrying away any growing fruit or vegetables as prohibited by § 11-44-2,shall arrest that person or persons and detain the person or persons in custodyuntil a complaint can be made against him, her, or them for the offense forwhich he, she, or they shall have been arrested and until he, she, or they betaken on a warrant issued upon the complaint; provided, that the arrest anddetention without a warrant shall not continue longer than the space oftwenty-four (24) hours.